outfit
112
4.8
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌfɪt/
:
grupo
- The military outfit was ready for deployment, equipped and organized for the mission.
Everything below the frame is done by local outfits.
- Everything below the frame is done by local outfits.
- You know, Hamas is not just a military outfit.
- I mean, there's a whole number of reasons why they're a hard left outfit.
- You and the Five is in the PSIA, in Japan, in the outfits around the world, too secret to have their names known to us.
Examples
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And the company, the group, the outfit that can help you is called Hawthorne.
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The ValueNow IPO was handled by the investment banking firm of Bakin-Kline, a small outfit in San Francisco.
Fiction book (2000) -
Those are the only ones that are going to the outfit with men.
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-He was in my outfit down there.
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All I care about is this outfit and who leads it.
Fiction book (2001) -
I run a special intelligence outfit out of the Pentagon now.
Fiction book (1996) -
This is the outfit that's been on our tail.
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Alert your outfit, you're moving out.
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They're the, uh, brains of the outfit.
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There were soldiers in Rocco's outfit who wore the same medal.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A number of people or things seen as one unit
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2.0
Soldiers who work together as a group in an army
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2.8
A group of people in an organization who have a specific job
702
2.4
A small group of people organized to do one job, like in the army or sports
389
2.4
A group within a larger organization, like an orchestra or company team
329
2.4
A group of people organized to do a specific job, like soldiers or a ship crew
327
1.0
A large group of people organized to do one job
320
1.0
A group of animals or people who act together
150
7.2
A large unit of soldiers made of several companies and led by a senior officer
119
5.8
A group of people organized to work or fight together
114
5.5
A military air unit of several aircraft and their crews
98
3.2
A group of soldiers organized to fight or carry out military tasks
15
2.8
A group of soldiers that does a specific task
5
2.5
A group of soldiers organized as part of an army, like a platoon or company
4
4.2
A group of the best people chosen for a difficult job
3
4.3
A group of soldiers who fight on foot
2
4.7
A military unit made of several groups of soldiers formed to fight
1
4.8
A group in an air force that uses aircraft for missions
1
8.5
A group of soldiers who serve together in the army
1
4.8
A group of soldiers who move in a set pattern to fight
Compounds
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Morphology
Etymology
Outfit originally comes from the phrase fit out, meaning to 'make ready' or 'supply'. Because groups like military units were given the same gear, an outfit came to mean a team or organization that acts together.